Nice find ! Yes they are both excellent. I assume hg is as easy to get going with as git when you first install it? If so - go with either, you wont be disappointed.
For me, the killer feature was github - as I am lazy - and it kind of holds my hand on how to do things (or did initially). I am sure there are alternatives for hg as well. On Feb 12, 3:02 pm, Steven Herod <steven.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's at this point, I post this link: > > http://blog.bitquabit.com/2010/02/10/fightings-been-fun-and-all-its-t... > > On Feb 12, 1:31 pm, Jess Holle <je...@ptc.com> wrote: > > > > > On 2/11/2010 8:07 PM, Joshua Marinacci wrote:>> There's an Mercurial > > plug-in for Eclipse, too (http://www.vectrace.com/ > > >> mercurialeclipse/). My point was that the Netbeans sources itself are > > >> stored in Mercurial (remember Tor talking about this extensively on a > > >> podcast), whereas the Eclipse guys decided to offer git as the > > >> standard distributed version control system to Eclipse projects, in > > >> addition to CVS and SVN. > > > > Yes, this is because after much research most of the Sun opensource > > > projects moved to Mercurial, including the JDK itself. > > > The unfortunate part is that git seems to be much more used than > > Mercurial on the whole and NetBeans' support for git is not in line with > > its Mercurial support -- leaving NetBeans playing second fiddle for > > manyu users in this regard. > > > Overall it seems like Mercurial was selected over git based on > > short-term criteria. > > > -- > > Jess Holle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
